Fighting Cocaine's Grip: At First I Was Scared

Caroline Coleman grew up in the privileged world of trust funds,
Virginia boarding schools and Swiss finishing schools. It is a world,
she claims, where using drugs is as common as clipping coupons.
"Most of the people I knew snorted coke and took pills. You just
couldn't make a move without ammunition." Coleman, now 28, says
she began sampling marijuana, hash, amphetamines and barbiturates when
she was a freshman at an exclusive girls' school in Virginia horse
country. The status drug among the teen-age girls, however, was clearly
cocaine. "If you had a...